The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly. William Shatner

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Monkey mind and the last poem of April

This year I wrote my poems of April on a discussion forum with one of my early friends. Chrissie’s poems were also in the chapbook Inside Out. So when I had a chance to write with a bunch of poets I leaped at the chance. This poem shows how my mind works when I am writing a poem, hence monkey mind.

Here is my last poem of April 2014:

Monkey mind and the last poem of April

The sun shone overheador should I say rays or shinemaybe the sun roseabove mountains or hills

the wind rustled the leavesdid it blow, or did it whipis rustle even an action?

chickadees nestedthese birds are probablyready to throw out the little chicksthe chirps are insaneand feeding the empty gullets

Spring had come
to our high desert homesince this is the last poemdo I need to add smells

the skunk family poked their noses
out holes in the fenceshould aroma and skunkbe in the same sentencewould readers really liketo smell roses instead?